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Vocabulary Acquisition

BetterLesson: Pint Chip Vocab

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BetterLesson: Prove your Knowledge Vocab Quiz

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BetterLesson: Sort and Categorize

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Image Source: Shutterstock Sight Seen by Skylines The Noun Project Lock by Maxim Kulikov Can you solve the clues & break out? Vocabulary BreakoutEDU The Clues The Code

Cult of Pedagogy: 6 Powerful Learning Strategies You MUST Share with Students | Cult of Pedagogy

Studying CAN be taught. Learn how retrieval practice, interleaving, elaboration, and other research-based study strategies can help your students learn better.

Dave Stuart Jr.: Latin Word Chunks: A Case Study in Smart, Low-Stress Knowledge-Building - Dave Stuart Jr.

If you’ve bought into the idea that knowledge matters — that people can't really think critically or read well or even learn things without knowing stuff — then you’re where I am. The whole skills vs. knowledge debate is a distraction built on a false premise. So now what? I’ve been wrestling with the Now what? for a lot of the summer. Knowledge-building has a chapter in …

Ditch The Lists: Digital vocabulary instruction that works

Vocabulary instruction doesn't have to be a boring chore for you and your students. Here are 4 ways to create engaging vocabulary activities for your classroom.

I Heart Edu: Automated Vocabulary Practice with Google Sheets

A couple of weeks ago, I assisted in a Google Level 1 bootcamp in Los Angeles. At the end of the first day, the attendees were challenged to “breakout” of a Digital BreakoutEDU game cre…

Middle School Mind: PROTOCOLS: TEACHING VOCABULARY WITH SKETCHNOTES

It is early in the school year and I am talking to my class about sketchnotes when I see the light bulb go off over someone's head. You mean we don't have to copy everything out of the textbook?

NYTime4s: Our Seventh Annual 15-Second Vocabulary Video Challenge

We invite you to create a short video that defines or teaches any of the words in our Word of the Day collection.

Read Write TRhink: Using Generative Sentences to Apply Academic Vocabulary - ReadWriteThink

In this guide, you will learn how to use generative sentences to give students opportunities to apply their knowledge of new words in writing.

Teaching Channel: Building Science Vocabulary

High school physics teacher Shelia Darjean Banks has her students identify challenging vocabulary words when reading science texts. Shelia asks each student to select five challenging vocabulary words. Students will work together to share and define the words they identify.

Teaching Channel: Learning Difficult Vocabulary

High school teacher Nichole Niebur explains how she teaches vocabulary related to copyright and fair use. Nichole pre-teaches vocabulary before having students explore issues of copyright. Students receive the standard definitions of vocabulary words and then work to write their own definitions.

Teaching Channel: Paint Chips

High School ELA teacher Sarah Brown Wessling uses paint chips to teach her students about related words. Sarah writes related words and synonyms on the different parts of the paint chips. Students read the paint chips and practice pronouncing the vocabulary words. Sarah creates a competition between two of her classes to see which class can use the vocabulary words the most.

Teaching Channel: Seven Step Vocabulary

Students in Joe Burkett's world studies class learn new vocabulary through a seven step method.

Teaching Tolerance: Word Work

These vocabulary strategies help students build their comprehension and language skills by using key words from Perspectives texts in their own reading, writing, speaking and listening.